When you choose hope, anything is possible.
Our story began with a girl named Rachel Covey who loved horses. Rachel battled with depression for many years, but found great fulfillment in helping other struggling girls find hope through equestrian training.
Her family recognized the special bond that exists between a girl and a horse—a bond that can help a young woman build confidence and overcome personal struggles. Rachel unexpectedly passed away in 2012. Shortly thereafter, in Rachel's honor, the Coveys founded Bridle Up Hope: The Rachel Covey Foundation, a 501(c)(3) public charity with the mission is to inspire hope, confidence, and resilience in girls and women through horses and habits.
Bridle Up Hope is designed to provide a transformational experience for girls and women at a time when life has never been harder on them. They face relentless pressure to live up to impossible expectations—to have the perfect body, be skinny, be pretty, be popular, get perfect grades, be athletic, and so forth—which often leads to low self-worth, anxiety, depression, and related challenges.
Our unique Equine-Assisted Learning (EAL) curriculum teaches girls and women to recognize their inherent worth and potential, and to approach life with correct paradigms of themselves and others. The program combines equestrian training, life skills development, service at the barn, and self-renewal activities, with principles from The 7 Habits of Highly Effective People integrated throughout.
At first, Bridle Up Hope was only intended to be a small neighborhood program, but after witnessing amazing transformations, we knew we had to think bigger.
To date, 2,000+ girls and women have completed our program and we have expanded to 10+ global locations.
Our vision is to partner with 1,000+ barns to bring hope to millions of girls and women worldwide.
Our mission is to inspire hope, confidence, and resilience in girls and women through horses and habits.
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